Ariadne auf Naxos, Glyndebourne, Lewes
Glyndebourne, Lewes: Glyndebourne opens the summer festival season with a new production of the elegant Strauss/Hofmannsthal conceit in which preparations for a new opera seria by a young composer are rudely interrupted by the announcement that it will be played simultaneously with the frivolous entertainment provided by a commedia dell'arte troupe. In the second half we see the results, in which prima donna Ari…